Australia’s fruit sabotage has spread to neighbouring New Zealand after a punnet of strawberries contaminated with needles was sold in an Auckland supermarket. Originating from a farm in Western Australia, this is the first time a contaminated punnet has surfaced in New Zealand after more than 100 alleged incidents of pins and needles being found […]
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How Social Media Is Helping Australia's Labor Movement Survive
Jeremy Poxon was underemployed, confounded by bureaucracy and losing hope. Like many young Australians struggling to find a way into the job market after graduating, Poxon turned to the country’s welfare provider, Centrelink, to access paltry benefits to help pay the bills. It didn’t feel great. He had no expectations from the current conservative Liberal […]
How Australia's Willy Wonka Created Britain's Most Controversial Candy
An increase in the price of a chocolate bar doesn’t usually make headlines. But in the U.K., back in January, The Guardian broke the news that the Freddo, a small, frog-shaped chocolate bar produced by Cadbury, was rising in price by five whole pence — from 25p to 30p (40 cents) — and the country […]
England captain Joe Root confident of breaking Australia's Gabba stronghold in first Test
Brisbane’s famous venue, nicknamed The Gabbatoir for its ferocious atmosphere, has not seen a home defeat in 28 matches spanning 29 years. But the England captain insisted his side have the personnel to emerge with a first Ashes win there since 1986 to put their hosts on the back foot going to the day-night Test […]
How 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' Became Australia's Greatest Mystery
Four schoolgirls — Miranda, Edith, Irma and Marion — and their math teacher, Greta McCraw, scale the Hanging Rock monolith under a moody sky in the Australian bush. It’s St. Valentine’s Day, 1900, and the group from the prestigious Appleyard College is on an excursion. As the quintet ascends, a possibly supernatural event occurs, and […]
